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Oxford and Cambridge were going neck and neck until suddenly the Cambridge boat stopped. They had spotted the head of a person swimming in the Thames right near Oxford's oars. The video of the incident is going viral on many news sites.
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Bandera -
Along the cypress-lined banks of the Medina River, the annual Bandera RiverFest held Saturday at City Park featured a wide range of family events including an anything-that-floats river parade, live music, BBQ cook-off, kayak races, and more.
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Edmonton -
New research shows increased levels of some carcinogenic chemicals associated with oil sands mining along Canada’s Athabasca River and discredits industry and government long-held claims of natural sources being responsible.
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Shanghai -
Environmental deterioration in the Three Gorges Dam region of China is forcing the government to acknowledge “urgent problems” which include landslides, seismic activity, relocations of citizens, and biodiversity loss.
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Washington -
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has led to the naming of the Susquehanna River as America’s most endangered river in an annual report listing the top ten rivers in the country at environmental risk from factors such as coal, uranium and sewage.
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Residents of Canada's Vancouver Island will be sleeping easier now that they know what led to the completely bizarre neon green discoloration of one of the major rivers flowing through the south part of the island.
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Earlier report on the Cambodian bridge stampede put the death toll at 25. But latest report from AFP now place the casualties at 339 in the annual water festival participated by millions of Cambodians.
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London -
While a homeless man was busy saving a woman from drowning in the Thames, someone stole the clothing and flask he had left in the bank of the river.
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The fun run for the rehabilitation of Metro Manilas' heavily polluted river which organizers refer to as "10.10.10., A Run for Pasig River" , was joined by 116,086 participants, according to Gina Lopez of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.
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Close to 175,000 people have joined Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos in a foot race around Metro Manila Sunday to raise funds for the rehabilitation of Pasig River.
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River Headlines
The cold weather has frozen rivers and canals solid in Germany
Joan Rivers is seen smoking weed on WE reality show.
Cleaner urban rivers are getting anglers hooked
 Scotland has the Loch Ness monster, Canada the Sasquatch. And in Iceland, the national mystery creature is known as the River Worm.
The banks of the famed Seine River in Paris are turned into an urban oasis for summer.
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